Chandos

The warmest welcome for a superb new realisation of Delius’s greatest work of incidental music [PCG]

A very promising beginning to the Doric’s Beethoven cycle, marked by excellent engineering, superb emotion, and precise attention to detail [MZ]

(Déjà Review) Much of this music is delightful, particularly the symphony, where Yoshimatsu wears his heart unselfconsciously on his sleeve. The BBC Philharmonic plays beautifully with Ian Bousfield a fine soloist in the concerto [CT]

(Déjà Review) Committed readings of unjustly neglected works from the forgotten byways of the British Musical Renaissance [HC]

Shostakovich and Pärt, cheek by jowl, on this uneven disc [NC]

(Déjà Review) This will be compulsory and compulsive listening for admirers of DSCH [PCW]

(Déjà Review) Hugely entertaining music conducted with incisiveness and flair [JQ]

A handful of unfailingly accomplished, virtually unknown trios, in handsome performances and ideal sound [RHa]

A crisp interpretation of Ravel’s reverie that highlights its sui generis brilliance against his Boulangerist successors [NC]

Bavouzet and Takács-Nagy are unsurpassed in sensitively conveying Mozart’s varieties of mood, but K415’s finale is diminished by a plethora of eingangs and a rescoring [MG]

Musically and sonically outstanding [JQ]

An essential Nielsen recording that crackles with the chaotic energy of the life-force [NC]

The Neave Trio charm us in this collection of rarities [RCh]

A very well played anthology of what is not Tchaikovsky’s most memorable or celebrated music [RMo]

Superb recordings of all the works here [SB]

Another way to listen to this imperishable masterpiece, beautifully arranged for and performed by lower, male voices [RMo]

Consistently magnificent performances, but comparison has a sting in the tail [MG]

Once again Impeccable music making from John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London [PRJ]

Three sonatas and a raft of transcribed songs offer fruitful material for the Chandos pairing [JW]

A full-blooded account of Mendelssohn’s weird pagan ballad, although his sister’s works will reward the curious listener in equal measure [RH]

(Déjà Review) The strong personality of dedicatee Julian Bream is ever present, but Ogden more than rises to the task. A fine disc [AD]

Three fulfilling works interconnected by pedagogical history [JF]

This SACD presents music, in fine performances, that is well worth getting to know [JQ]

A typical Järvi performance for good or ill [NB]